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H. D. STILES.

Head Rest.

No. 229,062. Patented June 221880.

Nv PETERS. Puomumcamanm WASP; NGTDN n C UNITED STATES PATENT OFFicE.

HERBERT D. STILES, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF OF HISRIGHT TO JOSHUA GREGG, OF SAME PLACE.

H EAD-REST.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 229,C62, dated June' 22,1880.

Application filed (Ianuary 19, 1880. I

the head of a passenger who may desire to lie on a car-seat; second, toafford facilities for the proper adjustment of the head-rest either upor down, and to hold the rest in position on either of the reversiblearms of a car-seat. I attain these objects by the mechanism i1-lustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which-- apparatus, showingthe manner in which it is attached to the reversible metallic arm of acar-seat. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same. 2 5 Similarlettersrefer to similar parts throughout the several views.

A represents the rigid wooden arm of a carseat, having attached theretothe metallic reversible arm B for the seat-back, all of which 0 is ofany ordinary form of construction.

0 O D represent a metallic clamp-block of peculiar construction, asfollows, to wit: The front is provided with two slides, E E, one on eachside, and extending from the bottom to 3 5 the top, in which aspring-bar is fitted and made fast at any desired height by the screw F,as shown in Fig. 2. At the rear side of the block is a recess formedbetween the thin plate D and the front part, O, in which the metallic4.0 arm B of the car-seat fits, the thin plateD bein g inserted betweensaid metallic arm and the wooden arm A, as shown in Fig. 1, and securedat any desired position on the arm B by the binding-screw F.

The spring also is of peculiar form, to wit: An edge view is similar tothat shown in Fig. 1. The part G, being straight and provided with holesP P P, operates in the slides E E of the clamp-block, and may beadjusted up or down by inserting the binding-screw F in Figure 1 is anend elevation of the entire any desired one of the holes P. The upperpart of the spring G is bent in front, as at H, thenback with a largerbend, J, at the rear, the upper end, K, being carried forward nearlyhorizontally, as shown, thus forming a very flexible spring.

The head-restO may be of any desired form or finish, having a woodenbase, N, on which is firmly secured the slide'plate M and slide L.

In the slide L the horizontal part K of the spring fits, as shown inFig. 1.

The whole apparatus, constructed as described, when set up ready foruse, is like that shown in the drawings.

The clam p-block O O D, with the spring and head rest, may be attachedto either one of the metallic arms of a car-seatt. a, the arm next tothe aisle or the arm next to the side of the car, thus enablingthepassenger who uses it to lie on the seat with his head toward the aisleor toward the side of the car, as he may desire.

The device may be easily detached from the seat-arm and the head-restremoved from the spring, so as to pack snugly in a valise fortransportation.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. Asa new article of manufacture, an ad justable portable spring head-restdevice consisting of the clamp-block O O D, the adjustable spring G K,provided with perforations P, the head-rest O, slide L, andbinding-screw F operating against the seat-arm, all substantially asdescribed.

2. The clamp-block O G D, having the vertical slide-guides E E in front,and provided with a recess to receive the metallic arm of the seatbetween the plate D and part 0, combined with the spring or perforatedbar G K, 0 binding-screw F, operating against the seat arm, and thereversible metallic seat-arm B of a car-seat, substantially as setforth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of 5 two subscribing witnesses.

HERBERT D. STILES.

Witnesses:

E. O. FRINK, G. 11., BENNETT.

